Fiery Stick Meat

I first encountered “stick meat” (fiery beef kebabs) at a Nigerian restaurant in Washington, D.C. But it was Dozie Nnamah, a cab driver in Chicago, who set the scene for properly enjoying this West African snack: Imagine you’re in your twenties and it’s Saturday night in Lagos. You and a bunch of friends crowd into a car for a spin. You crank up the radio until it rattles the windshield, listening to Ebenezer Obey, King Sunny Ade, or whoever else is rocking the Nigerian airwaves. And, you p